Jiuquan Atomic Energy Complex

Jiuquan Atomic Energy Complex is purportedly used for the manufacture of China’s Nuclear weapons. The plant is centred in a small patch of high-resolution satellite photography, but I’m sure those readers who understand Nuclear power plants can tell all sorts from the various buildings and reactors.

I’m sadly not one of those people, but it does seem to me that there’s Hanzi writing in these unused cooling towers? I suppose it could be a safety warning if you happen to be in the tower or maybe it’s a message to the US, who have been monitoring the area via satellite since 1962.

mash: This is the nuclear power plant in Kalkar, Germany. It was never in use and the project was abandoned in 1991. The site did cost 3.5 Billion Euro to build but was later sold for merely 2.5 Million Euro and then transformed to a hotel and theme park.

[url=http://www.kernies-familienpark.de/seiten/allgemein.cfm?artikelblockNr=80&spracheschluessel=de]Link to the theme park with some images ( requires Java )[/url]. Page is in german though.

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